The Golden Age.

VIDAL, Gore.

Item Number: 106339

New York: Doubleday, 2000.

First edition of is the seventh and final novel in his Narratives of Empire series. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

The story begins in 1939 and features many of the characters and events that Gore Vidal introduced in his earlier novel, Washington, D.C. This includes the families of conservative Democratic Senator James Burden Day, and powerful newspaper publisher Blaise Sanford. The book inserts the character of Caroline Sanford, Blaise's half-sister and publishing partner, who was introduced in the prequels to Washington, D.C. It covers America's entry into World War II and the national politics of that time in some detail, and highlights of the post-war years, and then closes with a year-2000 retrospective.